Koji Ise, lead UI designer on hit 2024 JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, joined Atlus in 2018 after spending a while working on website design in the advertisement space, as he explained at a GDC 2025 talk.

Metaphor: ReFantazio ReviewWatch on YouTube. UI is hugely important in setting the tone of a game as it appears across a game during gameplay, in menus, and more.

Metaphor ReFantazio Team Worked Hard To Make Game’s UI Different. March 26, 2025 by Todd Black. Making something unique for a unique world.

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Speaking to GamesRadar+ after GDC 2025, Metaphor's lead UI designer Koji Ise said he was at least partly inspired by another fantasy PS2 roleplaying game, this time from a quarter century ago ...